The VI International Classical Music Festival of Bogotá presents this week in different cultural spaces outstanding artists, orchestras and chamber music groups and dance companies from countries such as Colombia, France, Canada and Hungary. Within the framework of the festival, the Cafam Theater presents the recital by Leticia Moreno (violin) and Sergio Posada (piano), on April 8, 2023.
Leticia Moreno is Spanish by birth and of Peruvian descent, for which she has developed a deep musical relationship with Latin America and, especially, with her country of origin. Sergio Posada is a native of Medellín and has offered numerous chamber music concerts and recitals in Europe and Colombia.
The recital’s repertoire includes pieces such as the sonata in A major for violin and piano, a renowned composition by César Franck, considered one of the best sonatas ever written for these two instruments. Next, the artists will perform Poema de una sanluqueña op.28, a sonata composed by the Spanish Joaquín Turina in 1923. Finally, they will present the rhapsody for violin and piano Tzigane, by Maurice Ravel, a work that captures the spirit of gypsy improvisation.
“For the Cafam Theater it is an honor to have a high-level recital, to continue offering attendees an unforgettable cultural experience together with the VI International Classical Music Festival of Bogotá”, expressed the director of culture, public relations and media of Cafam, Fernando Barrero.
Both artists have extensive careers. Moreno has collaborated with the Vienna Symphony, the London, Monte Carlo and Saint Petersburg Philharmonic orchestras, and with the Mariinsky orchestras and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, as well as with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, among other.
Sergio Posada, has extensive and significant experience, he has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, Bogota Philharmonic, Medellin Philharmonic, II Cimento Barroco (Italy), Orchester der Musikfreunde der Stadt Baden (Austria), Vraza Philarmonie ( Bulgaria), Plovdiv Philharmonic (Bulgaria), Staat Arad Philharmonic (Romania), OSUANL Symphony Orchestra (Mexico), Wiener Mozart Orchester (Austria) and León Symphony Orchestra (Spain), among others.
Classic at Easter
In April, art is the main protagonist on Capital screens. That is why the transmission of the VI Classical Music Festival of Bogotá opens at Easter, an event in which the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo and other stages of the city will host the best national and international performers around the works and the most notable composers
This year, the festival has France as its guest country with the ‘Belle Époque’, in an exploration of the plastic, literary and musical artistic creativity of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with composers such as Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Camille Saint Säens, Gabriel Fauré, Lili Boulanger and Cécile Chaminade.
The transmission of the festival will be broadcast on the screens of the Capital, and thus the citizens will learn from the hand of great orchestras and soloists, the works, the culture and the vision of an era that in its celebration of creativity and expression became one of the most outstanding periods in the history of art.
The ballet will also be the protagonist. In this edition, the Györ Ballet of Hungary will present, together with the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, three performances at the Teatro Colón, today and tomorrow at 5:00 pm and on April 8 at 11 am, with choreographies that they bring to the dance the renowned “Bolero”, by Maurice Ravel, as well as works by Igor Stravinsky and Gabriel Fauré: one of them, Fauré’s, will have its world premiere in Colombia.
